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	Olivier Messiaen: Annotated Bibliography
		Messiaen's work was essentially inspired by three topics: God's Love as it manifests itself in the Incarnation of His Son; humanity's love of God as well as other fellow-beings; and bird song.
		Messiaen's use of birdsong in Reveil des oiseaux is detailed including written explanations, descriptions, and charts which identify the type of bird.
		Messiaen's use of melody in early compositions is contrasted with the blocks of sound which are more typical of his later works.
	theory.music.indiana.edu /isaacso/t556/bibliographies/messiaen.html (5621 words)

	Olivier Messiaen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Olivier Messiaen (IPA: [mɛsjɑ̃]; December 10, 1908 – April 27, 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist.
		Messiaen was appointed professor of harmony soon after his release in 1941, and professor of composition in 1966 at the Paris Conservertoire, positions he held until his retirement in 1978.
		Messiaen was also influenced by Surrealism, as may be seen from the titles of some of the piano Préludes (Un reflet dans le vent…, "A reflection in the wind") and in some of the imagery of his poetry (he published poems as prefaces to certain works, for example Les offrandes oubliées).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Olivier_Messiaen (5991 words)

	The Musical Times: Olivier Messiaen 1908-1992 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Messiaen’s improvisations, with their daring harmonic pallette and use of timbral extremes, became somewhat notorious and, although La Trinité became a place of pilgrimage for many young composers, Messiaen’s parishioners were initially disconcerted.
		Messiaen was to suffer from such accusations for the rest of his life; even as late as 1984, a biographer could write of Turangalîla as being ‘stupifyingly vulgar’.
		Messiaen’s other works from the 30s include the organ cycles La Nativité du Seigneur (1935) and Les Corps Glorieux (1939); in the elaborate preface to the former, Messiaen published his earliest account of his ‘modes of limited transposition’ and non retrogradable rhythms’;, and both works display an increasingly developed degree of rhythmic and harmonic independence.
	www.musicaltimes.co.uk /archive/obits/199209messiaen.html (1663 words)

	Olivier Messiaen Summary
		Messiaen was appointed professor of harmony soon after his release in 1941, and professor of composition in 1966 at the Paris Conservertoire, positions he held until his retirement in 1978.
		Messiaen's youthful love for the fairy-tale element in Shakespeare prefigured his later expressions of what he called "the marvellous aspects of the [Roman Catholic] Faith" — among which may be numbered Christ's Nativity, Crucifixion, Resurrection, Ascension, Transfiguration, the Apocalypse and the hereafter.
		Messiaen was also influenced by Surrealism, as may be seen from the titles of some of the piano Préludes (Un reflet dans le vent…, "A reflection in the wind") and in some of the imagery of his poetry (he published poems as prefaces to certain works, for example Les offrandes oubliées).
	www.bookrags.com /Olivier_Messiaen (6075 words)

	Messiaen, Olivier (1908 - 1992) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Olivier Messiaen has exercised a remarkable influence over composers both in his native France and elsewhere, although his own work is unique in its individuality.
		Messiaen's musical language is derived from a number of varied sources, including Greek metrical rhythms, Hindu tradition, the serialism of Schoenberg, Debussy and bird-song, with his whole work and life deeply influenced by the spirit of Catholicism.
		Messiaen made a significant addition to organ repertoire, his compostions for the instrument including La nativité du Seigneur (The Birth of the Lord), L'Ascension and Les corps glorieux (Bodies in Glory), the last described as seven brief visions of the life of the resurrected.
	www.naxos.com /composer/messiaen.htm (314 words)

	Music for the End of Time
		Messiaen replaced traditional major and minor scales by those of his own invention, which not only resonated differently than the traditional scales, but were not bound by the same relationships.
		Messiaen would later call this kind of thing a "non-retrogradable rhythm." Messiaen had rediscovered a medieval device called "isorhythm," in which unequal patterns of chords, pitches, and rhythms revolved around each other—except for medievalists, few musicians knew of the device until the 1950s.
		Messiaen was repatriated to occupied France in the spring of 1941.
	www.godspy.com /reviews/Music-for-the-End-of-Time.cfm?reviewtype=columns (2147 words)

	Olivier Messiaen biography - 8notes.com
		Olivier Messiaen (December 10, 1908–April 27, 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist.
		Messiaen was born in Avignon into a literary family: his mother was the poet Cécile Sauvage, while his father was a translator who worked on an edition of Shakespeare in French.
		Messiaen was also influenced by bird song, often walking in the woods with manuscript paper and transcribing the songs he heard.
	www.8notes.com /biographies/messiaen.asp (660 words)

	Essentials of Music - Composers
		Messiaen was one of the most original composers of the century and had a strong influence on the next generation of composers.
		Messiaen was born in the southern part of France, but he began his studies at the Paris Conservatory at the age of ten.
		Messiaen's music seems at first very abstract, yet underneath the often difficult surface there are many personal and emotional elements.
	www.essentialsofmusic.com /composer/messiaen.html (620 words)

	MTO 8.2: Benitez, Simultaneous Contrast and Additive Designs in Olivier Messiaen's Opera
		In Messiaen’s view, when someone listens to his music, it is more important that the superior senses of vision and hearing be connected in a manner analogous to the inferior senses of smell and taste; it is less important to see the same colors as he does.
		Messiaen had twenty-two woodwinds placed on a platform to the left of the stage and five mallet percussion instruments, which included the xylo ensemble, on a platform to the right of the stage.
		When Messiaen refers to his use of pitch-class complementation in terms of the "well[-]known phenomenon of complementary colours," he is underscoring the analogy between the musical interaction of two sonorities that are pitch-class complements of one another and the coloristic interaction of two hues in simultaneous contrast, best exemplified by complementary colors.
	mto.societymusictheory.org /issues/mto.02.8.2/mto.02.8.2.benitez.html (11182 words)

	Olivier Messiaen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Avignon (pronounced in ipa, provençal: avignoun) is a commune in southern france with some 88,300 inhabitants in the city itself and 155,500 in the greater...
		Yvonne loriod was a french pianist who became the second wife of composer olivier messiaen....
		Messiaen was a pioneer in the use of new instrumental forces.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/o/ol/olivier_messiaen.htm (2259 words)

	Review \| Messiaen: Éclairs sur L'Au-delà by Olivier Messiaen
		Olivier Messiaen's music sets itself apart from most other late 20th century composers on at least two fronts: its warm tonality and its transcendent spiritual quality.
		Messiaen's talent was not widely recognized until the advent of his work, Quatour pou la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time), a piece that was written and that saw its premiere in January 1941.
		Messiaen employed Indian and Greek rhythms, notably in his monumental Turangalîla Symphonie (1946-1948) -- a ten-movement piece where he makes use of the ondes martenot, an early electronic form of keyboard.
	www.bluecoupe.com /classical/messiaen.html (1017 words)

	Messiaen, Olivier. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Messiaen was a pupil of Paul Dukas at the Paris Conservatory.
		Messiaen’s music is remarkably original and personal, rich in color and texture.
		It draws from many schools and styles, including electronic and serial music, and is often based on scale formulas of his own invention or on his studies of Asian music and birdsong.
	www.bartleby.com /65/me/Messiaen.html (247 words)

	Olivier Messiaen: Biography - Classic Cat
		Messiaen was appointed professor of harmony soon after his release in 1941, and professor of composition in 1966 at the Paris Conservatoire, positions he held until his retirement in 1978.
		Messiaen's marriage turned to tragedy when his wife lost her memory after an operation, and she spent the rest of her life in mental institutions.
		Messiaen, in addition to making harmonic use of the modes of limited transposition, also cited the harmonic series as a physical phenomenon which provides chords with a context which he felt to be missing in purely serial music.
	www.classiccat.net /messiaen_o/biography.htm (6083 words)

	MessiaenWritings&Articles
		Pierre Boulez: 'Olivier Messiaen' Anhaltspunkte (Stuttgart and Zurich, Belser 1975)
		Adrian Evans:' Olivier Messiaen in the Surrealist Context: a Bibliography'.
		Messiaen immediately made a dedication on the scores she played and also gave her the following written recommendation: “Jennifer Bate is an excellent organist, not only for her virtuosity, but also for her musicianship and sensitivity in choosing her timbres.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /malball/messwrit.html (3888 words)

	Messiaen's Organ Registration
		Messiaen developed the idea of modal composition from his familiarity with the church modes, from the music of Maurice Emmanuel and probably also from the Russians.
		Messiaen calls upon the mixtures of the great division and the reed of the swell division.
		Messiaen is communicating how simple and important talking with the Lord is and how sometimes man is too busy to listen of realizes.
	www.uh.edu /~tkoozin/projects/galuska/andrewgaluska.html (1775 words)

	oliviermessiaen.net - About BUMP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Olivier Messiaen (1908-92) is one of the most significant composers of the twentieth-century yet remains one of the least discussed.
		The Boston University Messiaen Project is a three year, cross-disciplinary event dedicated to scholarly discussion and performance of Messiaen’s music and to related cultural, historical, theological issues in an effort to raise awareness of this notable figure.
		From the fall of 2006 to the summer of 2009 music by Messiaen, his teachers, students and colleagues will be programmed by faculty and students at the School of Music.
	www.oliviermessiaen.net /bump/index.html (368 words)

	French culture \| performing arts : Lincoln Center Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Olivier Messiaen has long been recognized as one of the most powerful and distinctive musical voices of the twentieth century.
		Messiaen's mystical and transcendent vision ranged through the influences of Debussy, Gregorian plainchant, Stravinsky and the Russians, Greek Orthodox music, Hindu rhythms, the percussion of Africa and the Far East, and Sanskrit and Christian texts, as well as the "true, lost face of music" he found in the sounds of birds.
		Messiaen's art that it can blend synthesized bird song, intimations of outer space and the sweet harmonies of a Metro-Goldwyn Mayer sound track without a trace of self-consciousness.
	www.frenchculture.org /perfo/events/lcf/messiaen.html (567 words)

	Articles - Olivier Messiaen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Olivier Messiaen (; December 10, 1908 – April 27, 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist.
		Messiaen visited the United States in 1947, his music being conducted there by Koussevitsky and Leopold Stokowski, and his ´´TurangalÃ®la-Symphonie´´; was first performed there in 1949 conducted by Leonard Bernstein.
		Messiaen´s youthful love for the fairy-tale element in Shakespeare prefigured his later expressions of what he called "the marvellous aspects of the [Roman Catholic] Faith" — among which may be numbered Christ´s Nativity, Crucifixion, Resurrection, Ascension, Transfiguration, the Apocalypse and the hereafter.
	www.rivarevo.com /articles/Olivier_Messiaen (5535 words)

	Olivier Messiaen
		One of the most unique and uncompromising composers of the modern era, Olivier Messiaen introduced many stylistic innovations into the stagnating classical idiom throughout the course of his career.
		Throughout the 1930s Messiaen continued to develop his methodology of "modes of limited transposition" and "non-retrogradable rhythms", both in his compositions and through published theoretical works.
		In the 1950s Messiaen turned to even more abstracted apporaches to compositon, exploring the approaches of twelve-tone and serial music (his Mode de Valeurs et d'intensities was the first piece to fully utilize the serial method).
	www.nndb.com /people/875/000044743 (598 words)

	Olivier Messiaen
		Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) is regarded by many as the major French composer of the 20th century.
		My interest in Messiaen's music is of relatively recent origin, inspired to a great extent by the involvement of my wife (Madeleine Forte) not only in the performance of his music but also in writing about it.
		Except for the introductory coverage of this music in Robert Sherlaw Johnson's excellent book, Messiaen (University of California Press 1975), I believe there is no published work on this corpus, the central work of which is his Livre d'orgue of 1951, a series of seven remarkable pieces.
	www.allenforte.com /messiaen.html (280 words)

	Amazon.ca: Et Expecto Resurrectionem: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Olivier Messiaen was probably more attuned to the sounds of nature than even Gustav Mahler and the two composers shared this love of the freedom and transparency of the fields and skies alive with the songs of birds and distant tunes.
		Messiaen on the other hand spent his life composing works that incorporated the bliss of nature and found the promise of afterlife and renaissance in these sweet fantasies.
		Oliver Messiaen was a pivotal, transitional figure in 20th century music, bridging the early Moderns and the post-war serialists.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000001GOV (1434 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		Given the extraordinary polish and poise of Steven Osborne's previous Messiaen release on Hyperion devoted to the monumental Vingt Regards Sur L'Enfant Jesus, it comes as no surprise that the scrupulous consideration he and pianist Martin Roscoe bring to the seven-movement Visions de l'Amen ups this music's technical ante.
		Messiaen's signature block chords rarely have been voiced with such variety in touch, dynamic gradation, and subtle synchronicity.
		Although Messiaen's loudest passages roar with the best of them, his heaviest scoring boasts welcome transparency and long-lined elegance, particularly in the swiftly paced finale.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=8468 (341 words)

	The Ensemble Sospeso - Olivier Messiaen
		Emmanuel was an expert on the metres of Greek verse (later a Messiaen speciality) and on the modes of ancient Greece, of folk music and of Christian liturgies; Messiaen recalled how after hearing this teacher's 30 chansons bourguignonnes he was ‘at once converted to modal music’.
		Messiaen admired some works of all these composers, and Le sacre du printemps was vital to him.
		Messiaen could, for example, have picked up from Jolivet the use of irrational values to loosen his rhythm, and he may have been stimulated too by the visits made to Paris in the 1930s by Varèse and Villa-Lobos.
	www.sospeso.com /contents/composers_artists/messiaen.html (2281 words)

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